Lucy Ludovica Chatterjee

Founder, The World Defence & Security Forum

Lucy Chatterjee is an entrepreneur, strategist and international business leader with a longstanding interest in geopolitics, military strategy and the evolving nature of warfare. She is the Founder of The World Defence & Security Forum, an institution being created to address the changing architecture of global defence and security and to bring together the people, organisations and ideas shaping its future.

Her academic background spans sociology, international security, and events management, with a specialisation in airline and airport operations. During her studies in international security, she was awarded a prestigious scholarship by the Spanish Ministry of Defence and Indra, one of Spain’s leading aerospace and technology companies.

Her academic interests have extended deeply into the study of conflict, strategy and power. She undertook an intensive course in War and Strategy led by former Spanish Defence Minister and former Vice President of Spain, Narcís Serra. Her intellectual interests encompass both classical and contemporary approaches to strategy, from the writings of Sun Tzu and Machiavelli to Japan’s seminal strategic work, The Book of Five Rings.

An entrepreneur from an early stage in her career, Lucy founded Imperial Group, an international trade-show construction, marketing and consulting company working across the aerospace, defence and related sectors. Over the course of her career, she has built businesses across multiple markets and developed extensive experience operating at the intersection of international business, technology, events and strategic industries. During the COVID-19 era, she also built a technology venture in Silicon Valley, further expanding her experience within the global technology ecosystem.

Having lived across nine countries over the course of 17 years, Lucy has developed a distinctly international perspective on business, culture and global affairs. Her career has taken her into sectors traditionally dominated by men, including defence, aerospace, technology and construction, giving her a multidisciplinary perspective on the forces shaping the modern world.She has also been featured by Forbes.

Today, Lucy is focused on her most ambitious venture yet: building an institution for the future of warfare and creating a new global platform connecting the diverse stakeholders shaping the defence and security landscape. The World Defence & Security Forum is conceived as a meeting point for ideas, expertise, industry, technology and strategic leadership at a time when the character of warfare is undergoing profound change.